I've been using it for almost two weeks now and I am very happy with it. It is fast and has a great deal of storage. I do wish that it had at least one more USB Type A/B port and an option for a 512 GB SSD instead of the 256 GB SSD to go with the 1 TB HDD would be nice.
This is my 3rd HP 17" laptop. My early computers, towers and laptops, were Dells but I became dissatisfied with the price/quality. I've been very satisfied with all of my HP laptops. This most recent laptop provides a lot of bang for the buck. The SSD cold boots in less than 15 seconds, the screen resolution/colors are very good, and performance, with 16GB RAM and i7 processor, is very good.
My only complaint is the touch pad. It's so sensitive that when typing, my hands above the touch pad trigger input resulting in unwanted cursor movement causing typing errors. I've never experienced this with the touch pads my other HP laptops. I noticed that the touch pad is closer to the keyboard than in my other HP laptops. I found info on the web on how to disable the touch pad, but I haven't done it yet.
I love this laptop, it met all my needs for freelance work and personal use. It's fast and simple to set up. The keyboard is full size with comfortable hand placing so it's easy to type fast. The video and audio quality is excellent. I highly recommend this laptop!
When a computer is working fine, you don't notice anything, and overall, this is working fine and smoothly. So here's what I hate: the touchpad, "mouse" buttons. It is all one thing, no separate left or right button, it is all part of the touchpad. This sucks in photoshop when I have to use multiple fingers on one touchpad. I will end up with a separate wireless mouse--which is fine. But if anything specific could be improved, give me a touchpad and 2 seperate buttons.